India-Pakistan tensions: Nawaz Sharif steps in to help brother Shehbaz as pressure mounts, advises him to…
India-Pakistan tensions: Amid heightened India-Pakistan tensions and mounting pressure following the Pahalgam terror attack, which resulted in India conducting missile strikes inside the enemy country under Operation Sindoor, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has stepped in to help out his brother, Shehbaz Sharif, who currently hold’s the country’s top post.
Nawaz Sharif advises diplomacy
According to a report by The Express Tribune, Nawaz Sharif returned to Pakistan from London, soon after India announced the suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty, in wake of the Pahalgam terror attack. Following his arrival, Nawaz Sharif met his brother and advised the Pakistan Prime Minister to ease tensions with India in a diplomatic manner after Shehbaz Sharif briefed the PML-N chief on the decisions taken by the National Security Committee (NSC) meeting in the wake of the suspension of the IWT by India, the report said.
As per the report, Nawaz Sharif wanted the PML-N-led coalition government to utilise all available diplomatic resources to restore peace between the two nuclear-armed states, saying he was not keen on taking an aggressive position.
‘Opposed Kargil war, was ousted’
Notably, earlier in 2023, Nawaz Sharif had stressed on the importance of building good relations with India, and claimed that his government was ousted from power in 1999 because he had opposed the Kargil war.
“I want to know why my governments were overthrown in 1993 and 1999. Was it because we opposed the Kargil war,” Nawaz had said.
Nawaz Sharif was the Prime Minister of Pakistan when his government was overthrown in a military coup on October 12, 1999. Last year, Nawaz also admitted that Pakistan had ‘violated’ an agreement with India in 1999. “On May 28, 1998, Pakistan carried out five nuclear tests. After that Vajpayee Saheb came here and made an agreement with us. But we violated that agreement…it was our fault,” the former PM had said.
The agreement mentioned by Sharif was the “Lahore Declaration,” which he and then-Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee signed on February 21, 1999, with the goal of fostering peace and stability between India and Pakistan. However, shortly after the signing, Pakistani troops infiltrated the Kargil district in Jammu and Kashmir, leading to the Kargil War.
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